Album · Paolo Nutini
Caustic Love by Paolo Nutini
Caustic Love is an album by Paolo Nutini, released in 2014. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 13 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Let Me Down Easy”, on 8 lists with a best position of #6.
Caustic Love, Paolo Nutini's third album, came out on Atlantic on 14 April 2014, a full five years after Sunny Side Up, and the wait shows in every groove. The Paisley singer spent two years on the road behind that record, then started writing and recording in February 2011, co-producing the new one with Dani Castelar.
What came out is a sweaty, slow-cooked soul record dressed up as pop rock: grit and funk on "Scream (Funk My Life Up)", which went out ahead of the album, and on "Iron Sky" a smouldering slow build that lets that sandpaper voice climb until it cracks. Critics heard British R&B steeped in old blue-eyed soul, and buyers followed: it entered the UK chart at number one with 109,000 copies sold, the quickest seller of any album in Britain that year, and Apple later named it the best album of 2014 on iTunes.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Caustic Love on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let Me Down Easy | 8 | #6 | – | 2014–2018 | |
| 2 | Iron Sky | 5 | #30 | – | 2021–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.